Package of toilet-paper



(Ho Model.)

0. H. HICKS.

PACKAGE 0F TOILET PAPER.

No. 3254110. Patented Sept. I 1885 W iinesse s. In l efliefi.

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UNITED STATES ATsNT FFlCE.

PACKAGE 0 F TOILET-PAPER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 325,410, datedSeptember 1, 15.85.

(No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, OLIVER HEWLETT HICKS, of Chicago, in the county ofCook and $t-ate of Illinois, have invented a certain new and ImprovedPackage of Toilet-Paper; and I do hereby declare the following to be afull, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had tothe accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, and tothe figures and letters of reference marked thereon.

'Heretofore toilet-paper has usually been furnished to the public eitherin the form of sheets cut to the proper size for use or in cylindricalrolls of continuous lengths. In some cases the paper furnished in theform of rolls has been perforated transversely at regular intervals,with the view of enabling the user to separate it into sheets of uniformsize, and thus obtain the advantages of the package composed ofindependent sheets. The chief objection to each of these modes offurnishing toilet-paper is the great amount of wastage which occurs.\Vhere the separate-sheet plan is employed the user is apt to detach agreat many more sheets than he actually uses, while where the roll planis practiced the rolls are usually hung so as to freely revolve, and theuser, by a pull upon the depending end, oftentimes reckless] y reels oftyards where feet would answer.

The object I have had in view has been to furnish toilet-paper in a formwhich would prevent in a large measure this vast amount of wastage. 1ncarrying out this object I have put up one or more lengths of paper inthe form of a continuous band (as contradistinguished from a roll) ofoblong or oval shape, the short rounded ends of the bundle thus producedserving as guides for determining the proper points at which the paperis to be separated in order to produce sheets of a size desirable foruse, and affording also the most advantageous surfaces upon which totear the paper. The band I make of a thickness calculated to producesheets severed at the points stated of practical and economical lengthsfrom the time the bundle is opened until it is consumed.

In the accompanying drawings, I have illustrated my improved form ofbundle. Figure 1 shows the mode of tearing off the sheets, and Fig. 2 isa side view of one of the bundies.

In the manufacture of these bundles I preferabl y form the'band bywinding continuous lengths of paper upon a mandrel of suitable size,with or without the interposition of athick paper core, a, (shown inFig. 2,) and when the band has attained a sufficient thickness it isremoved from the mandrel and collapsed or flattened into the oblong oroval shape shown in both figures.

I make the internal diameter of the band when in cylindrical form of notless than twice the thickness of the band at any one point, and theproportions which I prefer to employ are as follows: Vidth of paper,from four and one-half to five inches; internal diameter of band, whenin cylindrical form, about two and three-quarters inches; externaldiameter, from four to five inches.

This form of bundle may be mounted in a fixture such as shown anddescribed and claimed in my application for patent Serial No. 155,464,filed February 7, 18.85, or it may be used detached from a fixture, asshown in Fig. 1, one hand of the user being slipped into the interior,and the other hand being employed to grasp the pendent end of the paper.and by drawing the paper tightly over one of the short rounded ends ofthe bundle causing it to separate at that point and produce a sheet ofconvenient length.

The oblong flattened form of the bundle enables it to be packed in casesto greater advantage than if itwere in cylindrical form, the smallinterstices between the rounded ends being the only spaces leftunoccupied.

In the use of my improved package it is obvious that when one sheet istorn off the end of the portion which is to form the next succeeding onewill automatically descend into convenient position to be grasped. Thisis a feature of importance, and it is obvious that the employment of anysubstance which would cause the adherence of the layers or convolutionsone to the other, or of any form of contrivance that would prevent thefree separation of the end from the body of the paper, would entirelydefeat it.

1 claim as my invention- A bundle of paper consisting of one or morelengths formed into a continuous band whose internal diameter is greaterthan the thickness of paper, substantially as described.

OLIVER HEWLETT HICKS.

Vvitnesscs:

FRED F. Cannon, A. S. STEUART.

